ICEHOUSE CIRCA 300 YARDS EAST OF BIDDLESTONE CHAPEL

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1041305
Date first listed:: 03-Sep-1986
List Entry Name:: ICEHOUSE CIRCA 300 YARDS EAST OF BIDDLESTONE CHAPEL
Statutory Address:: ICEHOUSE CIRCA 300 YARDS EAST OF BIDDLESTONE CHAPEL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1041305
Date first listed:: 03-Sep-1986
List Entry Name:: ICEHOUSE CIRCA 300 YARDS EAST OF BIDDLESTONE CHAPEL
Statutory Address 1:: ICEHOUSE CIRCA 300 YARDS EAST OF BIDDLESTONE CHAPEL

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: ICEHOUSE CIRCA 300 YARDS EAST OF BIDDLESTONE CHAPEL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Biddlestone
National Park:: NORTHUMBERLAND
National Grid Reference:: NT 95801 08297

Details

BIDDLESTONE BIDDLESTONE NT 90 NE 15/27 Icehouse c.300 yards east of Biddlestone Chapel

II

Icehouse. Early C19. Ashlar. Built into steep bank with retaining wall and square porch.

Inside, a short passage with 3 right-angled turns leads to the ice chamber which is square, c.15 ft. deep with tunnel-vaulted roof and offsets at regular intervals down the sides which formerly supported wooden shelves to hold the ice. A trap door through the vault, covered by a massive stone slab, provided further access.

Listing NGR: NT9580108297

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 236113
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.